Qualcomm Reportedly Working On Powerful Snapdragon Processor For Affordable Windows Laptops

Recently, chip designer Qualcomm revealed its new Snapdragon X series of processors, designed for Windows on Arm laptops.

Four chipsets were revealed as part of the range, three of which belong to the Snapdragon X Elite tier.

The remaining chipset is the Snapdragon X Plus, is expected to power more affordable laptops.

Other laptops containing a Snapdragon processor include the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s, the Lenovo Ideapad Duet 5 Chromebook Gen 6, and the Acer Chromebook 511.

Android Authority indicated the company could have more plans for the Plus range, including a second, more powerful variant, the X1P-42-100.

It’s expected to feature eight Oryon CPU cores, while lacking four efficiency cores. This information has yet to be confirmed.

This could mean better performance, however, it’s expected to come with fewer PCle lanes.

See below the full specification list for the Snapdragon X line.

The X1P-42-100 will also reportedly have limitations with video encoding and decoding, capped at 4K/30fps (encoding) and 4K/60fps (decoding).

The Android Authority leaks also go beyond the X series and suggest Qualcomm are also working on a server-grade chip, ‘SD1,’ which is expected to feature 80 Oryon cores on a 9470-pin LGA socket, using TSMC’s 5nm production process.

Additionally, the leak suggests this chipset will support 16 channels DDR5-5600 RAM, 70 PCle 5.0 lanes, and the capability to run two chips simultaneously.

The tipster also revealed the SD1 integrates Compute Express Link (CXL) 1.1, however, other silicone details are unclear currently.